Festering families, difficult truths and transcendent grace: best podcasts of 2025

100 years on, T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men is a poem for our populist moment

Diagnostic and symptomatic, accusatory and culpable, communal and personal, The Hollow Men is a poem about that which ails society at large.

A dreamscape of transcendental potential: Rhett Davis’ Arborescence is at once terrifying and bewitching

Davis addresses all the big-ticket concerns of our time: artificial intelligence, ecological disaster, societal decay, colonial culpability and overconsumption

Rural students tune into university life with hands-on music experience

Boorowa Central students explore music pathways firsthand through UOW and WollCon partnership

50 Artists: 50 Years celebrates five decades of Illawarra and Australian art

Exhibition features works by renowned artists including Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Gloria Petyarre and Paul Ryan

A lost woman looks for purpose in a Guatemalan lakeside town

In The Sun Was Electric Light, Ruth arrives at Lake Atitlán a loner-searcher. But the people she meets are crucial to her struggles with the question of how to live